August Strindberg and Visual Culture: The Emergence of Optical Modernity in Image, Text and Theatre

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August Strindberg and Visual Culture addresses the multiplicity of Strindberg's artistic and literary output. The book charts the vital intersections between theatre, aesthetic theory, and visual elements in his work that have been left largely unexplored. Rather than following traditional genre-bound critical approaches, this book focuses on the intermediality of individual works, the corpus as a whole, and their connections to a wide array of historical and contemporary artists, writers, photographers, film, theatre and museum practitioners. The book is beautifully illustrated, with many never-before-seen images from Strindberg's work, and includes contributions from actress Liv Ullmann, director Robert Wilson, and curator and museum director Daniel Birnbaum. Cover Contents List of Illustrations Contributors Foreword: An Extraordinary Transdisciplinary Artist Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: Visual Culture, August Strindberg and the Double Image of Modernity 2 Hands, Dissection and Embodied Seeing: Strindberg and Munch 3 ‘May the Force Be With You’: Strindberg’s Paintings 4 Strindberg the Environmentalist? Bloodstained Landscapes and the French Tradition of Nature Painting 5 Ghost Vessels: Anti-Theatricality, Visuality and Disembodiment Across Strindberg’s Late Chamber Media 6 Méliès’ Dream Film and Strindberg’s Dream Play: Compressing Time and Space 7 Strindberg and the Images of the Stage: A Dramaturg’s Perspective 8 Staging Strindberg’s A Dream Play: A Visual Essay 9 Robert Wilson’s Photographic Elements of Strindberg’s A Dream Play 10 Dream-Playing the Archive: Exploring the 1915–18 Düsseldorf Production of A Dream Play 11 Anticipations of the Digital: Dispersing Strindberg 12 Picturing Miss Julie: Gender and Visuality in Performance Practice 13 Strindberg’s Self-Portraits in Context 14 My Strindberg ‘Selfies’ 15 Scenography, Photography, Cinematography: Strindberg and the Technologies of Visual Representation 16 Liv Ullmann’s Miss Julie (2014): An Interview with Reflections Index